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    Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch
    Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch
    Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch
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    Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch

    By Andrew Erskine, George Dempster and James Boswell

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch - Andrew Erskine

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      Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch (1763), by James Boswell, Andrew Erskine and George Dempster

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      Title: Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch (1763)

      Author: James Boswell, Andrew Erskine and George Dempster

      Release Date: May 18, 2005 [EBook #15857]

      Language: English

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      JAMES BOSWELL, ANDREW ERSKINE, and GEORGE DEMPSTER

      Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch (1763)

      With an Introduction by Frederick A. Pottle

      Publication Number 35

      Los Angeles

      William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      University of California

      1952

      GENERAL EDITORS

      H. RICHARD ARCHER, Clark Memorial Library

      RICHARD C. BOYS, University of Michigan

      ROBERT S. KINSMAN, University of California, Los Angeles

      JOHN LOFTIS, University of California, Los Angeles

      ASSISTANT EDITOR

      W. EARL BRITTON, University of Michigan

      ADVISORY EDITORS

      EMMETT L. AVERY, State College of Washington

      BENJAMIN BOYCE, Duke University

      LOUIS BREDVOLD, University of Michigan

      JAMES L. CLIFFORD, Columbia University

      ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, University of Chicago

      EDWARD NILES HOOKER, University of California, Los Angeles

      LOUIS A. LANDA, Princeton University

      SAMUEL H. MONK, University of Minnesota

      ERNEST MOSSNER, University of Texas

      JAMES SUTHERLAND, University College, London

      H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., University of California, Los Angeles

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

      EDNA C. DAVIS, Clark Memorial Library

      INTRODUCTION

      "WEDNESDAY 19 JANUARY [1763]. This was a day eagerly expected by Dempster, Erskine, and I, as it was fixed as the period of our gratifying a whim proposed by me: which was that on the first day of the new Tragedy called Elvira's being acted, we three should walk from the one end of London to the other, dine at Dolly's, & be in the Theatre at night; & as the Play would probably be bad, and as Mr. David Malloch, the Author, who has changed his name to David Mallet, Esq., was an arrant Puppy, we determined to exert ourselves in damning it."[1]

      George Dempster, aged thirty, a Scots lawyer who by putting his fortune under severe strain had been elected Member of Parliament for the Forfar and Fife burghs, was in London in his official capacity. Andrew Erskine, aged twenty-two, younger son of an impoverished Scots earl, was waiting in London till the regiment in which he held

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